Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core
About The Position
The Core Model Safety team builds foundational capabilities for assisted and automated driving, focusing on collision avoidance, model understanding, and robustness under failure. This role is within a focused, high-impact senior team with strong ownership, access to large-scale training and fleet data, and close partners in research, simulation, evaluation, and applied engineering. As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Wayve's AV Core organization, you will lead the technical direction and delivery of learned emergency manoeuvre prediction and collision detection models. Emergency manoeuvres are rare, high-consequence events that place unusual demands on data, modelling, and validation. You'll take the programme from problem definition through modelling, evaluation, integration, and evidence for deployment.
Requirements
- Strong track record of ML engineering, including pathfinding in ambiguous problems — from scoping and evals to establishing a direction (and knowledge transfer) for others to build on.
- Hands-on experience with ML systems deployed in the real world.
- Proficient in Python and PyTorch, with strong software engineering practices and hands-on experience building reliable machine learning training and evaluation systems.
- Excellent experimental judgement: able to turn an ambiguous behavioral problem into falsifiable hypotheses, useful metrics, disciplined ablations, and clear technical decisions.
- Senior-level ownership and collaboration: able to lead a substantial technical area, work across research and engineering boundaries, and bring others along through clear written and verbal communication.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics with hands-on deployment and closed-loop validation on physical systems.
- Experience in 3D scene understanding and representation learning for geometric and semantic perception, large-scale semantic enrichments.
- Experience mining, generating, or evaluating rare events using simulation and fleet or heterogeneous real-world data.
- Experience with transformer-based and multimodal architectures, including vision-language models (VLM), vision-language-action models (VLA), or equivalent.
- Proficiency in C++, CUDA, distributed training, or performance optimization for production machine learning systems.
Responsibilities
- Drive Core Model Safety roadmap themes, owning the full lifecycle from research to offline/online experiments to technology transfer.
- Train and deploy end-to-end AV 2.0 models for emergency manoeuvre prediction and collision detection on our global fleet, using large-scale, diverse data to validate capabilities and improve generalisation across vehicles, markets, and driving conditions.
- Collaborate on online occupancy models for geometric and semantic perception.
- Build high-value open-loop and closed-loop evaluations for core capabilities and representation learning.
- Align priorities and learn from the organisation — with AV Core, Evaluation, and Product Engineering on roadmaps and failure modes; from fleet, simulation, and product feedback; and through mentoring others on the team.
- Maintain awareness of the wider business context — division and company priorities, near-term product programmes, and how Core Model Safety work enables them.
Benefits
- Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
- Meaningful equity, sharing in the ownership and long term success of Wayve
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable
- Hybrid working, core hours and the chance to work hands on in vehicle workshops and labs
- Learning and development budgets with support for training, conferences and growth
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension where applicable, access to therapists, wellbeing partnerships, team socials and more
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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